Chapter 69 Dinner

Before Percy could sit down, George and Fred made a seat between them and motioned for Percy to sit between them. George also held a biscuit in his hand and handed it to Percy.

At this time, Percy was so shy that he just wanted to find a hole in the ground to crawl into. When he saw his two brothers making room for him, he thought that his brothers were more reliable, so he sat down without thinking. He did not refuse the biscuits that George handed him, and stuffed them into his mouth. Here, after soaking in the black lake for a long time, I was already hungry.

Percy obviously forgot that his two brothers also had the famous title of "King of Pranks".

As soon as the ordinary-looking biscuit was eaten, orange flames began to appear all over Percy's body. Percy was shocked when he found that his body was on fire, and began to beat the flames desperately.

However, those flames were like the legendary fierce fire, which could not be extinguished.

In desperation, Percy couldn't care less about being embarrassed or not. He lay down on the ground and started rolling back and forth, hoping to put out the fire. The little wizards around him screamed in surprise when they saw this, but the Weasley brothers looked at Percy's embarrassed appearance and did not go to help him. They just laughed there.

After rolling on the ground for a while, Percy noticed something strange. Although the flames looked scary, he didn't feel burned by the flames, and even his clothes didn't ignite. On the contrary, he actually felt warm and comfortable on his body. The coolness brought by being drenched in cold water in the black lake and the cold wind blowing for a while was driven away by the flames.

He climbed up from the floor with difficulty, and when he saw George and Fred looking like they were about to die from laughter, they suddenly became furious and opened their mouths to say something. But the expected curse did not come out. Instead, a stream of flames and black smoke spurted out of Percy's throat.

At this time, the little wizards around didn't know that this was just another prank by the Weasley brothers. Looking at Percy with a ferocious expression and spitting fire from his mouth, they also burst out laughing.

Mike saw all the scenes there, and he couldn't help but sneer when he saw Percy getting angry all over.

There are seven Weasley brothers and sisters. Except for Ron, who can't help him, Percy is the most useless.

Just talking about the incident just now, if the people who fell into the Black Lake were either George or Fred, they would definitely regard the laughter in the auditorium as a compliment rather than a sarcasm, and would even complain to others afterwards. Show off his experience of falling into the black lake and fighting the monsters inside.

This approach is far better than Percy being like a turtle.

Leaving aside other houses, at least many people within Gryffindor will definitely want to try the feeling of close contact with the Monster from the Black Lagoon.

Professor McGonagall, who had returned to the outside of the auditorium to reorganize the order of the freshmen, returned to the auditorium again. The noisy environment in the auditorium made Professor McGonagall very angry, and he yelled at all the old students again, and only then did this group of excited students regroup. It got quiet.

Professor McGonagall nodded slightly as she watched everyone return to calm, and walked to the Sorting Hat in the center of the auditorium. She coughed slightly and waved her wand, and the door to the auditorium opened automatically.

A group of freshmen outside the gate lined up neatly and entered the auditorium with trepidation under the watchful eyes of all the old students and professors.

They also heard the laughter in the auditorium before, and looked at the people in the auditorium curiously. However, they found that the atmosphere in the auditorium was quite serious, and they couldn't help but become nervous again.

When all the freshmen entered the auditorium, the Sorting Hat in the center of the auditorium sang the sorting song that it had spent a whole year carefully preparing.

After singing the song, everyone in the auditorium gave the loudest applause. Mike felt drowsy after listening to it. He really didn't understand the wizarding world's aesthetics of music. To him, the Sorting Hat's singing was not even as good as the rap of someone in his previous life.

The sorting ceremony was nothing to see. Each little wizard was sorted into their respective houses after the Sorting Hat peeked into their brains. Mike suspected that the Sorting Hat was originally created to identify dark wizards who wanted to sneak into Hogwarts.

Whenever a new student is assigned, a burst of warm cheers will erupt from the college he is assigned to. Mike was also treated like this in his first year. At first, he felt a little flattered, but later he learned that, This is just routine operation.

A girl with long light blond hair among the freshmen caught Mike's attention.

It's not that this girl is very beautiful, but her temperament is completely different from the freshmen next to her.

A pair of huge carrot earrings appeared and disappeared in the little girl's light blond hair as she walked. There was also a necklace made of butterbeer bottle caps around her neck. The most eye-catching thing is her silver-grey eyes. Other freshmen either have their eyes wandering and appear very nervous, or they look around curiously, but her eyes are calm, as if everything in front of her is... It has nothing to do with her.

"Are you attracted to this person?" Penello noticed Mike's movements and poked Mike with his arm.

"Why, are you jealous?" Mike replied calmly, "That's Luna Lovegood. Their family is a neighbor of the Weasley family. I met her once during the summer vacation. Oh, By the way. Her dad seems to be the editor-in-chief of The Quibbler."

Penello glanced at Mike suspiciously and stopped asking.

The sorting ceremony for the freshmen ended quickly. Before the banquet began, Dumbledore solemnly introduced this year's new Defense Against the Dark Arts professor, Lockhart.

Lockhart was wearing a pink suit today, his hair was sleek and smooth, and he looked very coquettish.

When he heard Dumbledore introduce him, he stood up from the teacher's chair, showed his signature smile to everyone in the audience, and bowed slightly.

His appearance rekindled the atmosphere in the auditorium, and the witches in the auditorium gave him their warmest cheers. An unknown senior student not far from Mike fainted with excitement. At this moment, she was being held in the arms of the boy next to her and pinching her. Looking at the joyful expression on the boy's face, Mike guessed that he must have eaten her. Senior sister has a lot of tofu.

Mike also noticed that even the librarian, Mrs. Pince, had her arms crossed as if her heart was beating too fast and she was about to faint, while Filch looked at Lockhart with an unkind expression.

When everyone finally calmed down, Dumbledore announced the official start of the dinner.

Following his order, a large number of exquisite delicacies suddenly appeared on the originally empty long table. Now, except for a few nymphomaniacs who were still looking over at Lockhart, everyone began to eat with their heads covered.

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